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Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: May 25, 2020 10:34 pm
by coracle
Hayley Mills, child actor (& teenage and adult actor), who starred in lots of films I saw in my childhood and youth (eg Pollyanna, The Parent Trap, Summer Magic).

Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: May 27, 2020 7:28 pm
by waggawerewolf27
Malcolm Fraser, another Australian Prime Minister from 1975 to 1983

Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: May 27, 2020 9:38 pm
by Sun-muffin
Franklin Roosevelt

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PostPosted: May 30, 2020 12:59 pm
by Courtenay
Rudyard Kipling

Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: May 30, 2020 3:14 pm
by coracle
Katherine Mansfield, a New Zealand writer famed for her short stories which depict life in New Zealand in the early 20th century. One of our literary greats.

Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: Jun 01, 2020 12:46 am
by waggawerewolf27
Maurice Gee, another well known New Zealand children's author

Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: Jun 01, 2020 2:48 am
by coracle
Georgie Henley, a rather well-known actress in these parts!

Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: Jun 01, 2020 5:39 pm
by waggawerewolf27
Henry Lawson, an Australian well loved poet & writer

Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: Jun 02, 2020 6:21 am
by Reepicheep775
Louis Pasteur, a pioneer of germ theory

Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: Jun 03, 2020 8:12 pm
by Wunderkind_Lucy
Patrick Henry, an American attorney, planter, politician, and orator best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

~Wunder

Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: Jun 05, 2020 6:39 pm
by Wanderer Between Worlds
Harriet Tubman, an African-American woman who escaped from slavery and then made thirteen return trips to free other slaves using a network called the Underground Railroad.

Re: Famous Names

PostPosted: Jun 10, 2020 3:11 pm
by waggawerewolf27
(Dr) Truby King, a famed New Zealander pediatrician who wrote books on child care